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About this event

[Fireside Chat]

Join our fireside chat with Kia Parsai, the founder & CEO of Shanghai Love Brewing Company. After only one year, Shanghai Love has become one of the leading craft beer brands in China, and Kia is helping shape the quickly expanding craft beer market.

The 2017 Caohejing Carnival will be held in Shanghai Caohejing Hi-tech Park Innovation Center from October 23rd to 27th, during which the main activities including the opening and closing ceremonies, special industry competition, and other derivative activities will be unveiled on the 26th-27th.

Startup Grind is the largest independent startup community, actively educating, inspiring, and connecting 1 million entrepreneurs in over 200 cities. In Shanghai, we've been trying to build up a community for entrepreneur since 2013.

Mia is on the investment team of a global healthcare tech leader. Previously she worked in Chinese outbound M&A. She has a passion for entrepreneurship. Mia任职于一家全球医疗技术领先机构的投资团队，此前工作于中国的海外并购领域，对创业充满激情。

Erik pursues his passion for the Industrial Internet as a Partner at IoT ONE. He helps companies develop and implement their Industrial Internet strategies. Erik是物联网公司IoT ONE的合伙人，对工业互联网领域充满热忱，帮助企业开发和实施自身的工业互联网战略。

As employee 37 in Mobike, Florian sweats hard for evangelizing their solution across the globe, striving to provide a more sustainable means of transportation to the world.作为摩拜单车的第37名员工，Florian竭力在全球范围推广他们的解决方案 - 为全世界提供更加可持续的交通方式。

Joyce works at frog, striving to uncover user insights and translating them into compelling products, services and experiences for world class clients. Joyce任职于跨国设计与战略咨询公司frog，竭力发掘用户意见，并将其转化为引人注目的产品、服务和用户体验，服务于世界级的客户。

Simon co-founded Saucepan, an online-to-offline healthy food delivery start-up based in Shanghai that aims to bring more transparency to the food supply chain here in China. Simon联合创办了Saucepan, 一家位于上海的从线上到线下的健康食品外卖公司，旨在使中国食品供应链变得更加透明。

Speaker

Kia Parsai

Founder & CEO - Shanghai Love Brewing Company

Kia Parsai is the founder & CEO of Shanghai Love Brewing Company. After only one year, Shanghai Love has become one of the leading craft beer brands in China, and Kia is helping shape the quickly expanding craft beer market.

Kia Parsai是申爱酿造公司的创始人和CEO，仅用一年时间就打造出了这个中国领先的啤酒品牌，为迅速发展的工艺啤酒市场做出了卓越贡献。

Kia has been in the F&B industry since his years operating his family business in his hometown of Santa Barbara, where he held the largest retail accounts in the state for all major beer brands. After his Master from the University of Oxford, Kia moved to Brazil to pursue his dream of developing a craft beer brand abroad.

He moved to Shanghai in 2012 in order to explore expansion for the Brazilian retail operation, but after further research he decided to follow his true passion of setting up his own brand. Kai's first project was a hit, co-founding the number 1 rated international restaurant in Wuhan (Noi). After parting ways with his previous partners and with limited experience in small scale beer production, he found his next passion project, Shanghai Love. Now, after taking strict control of every process in his business from brewing to branding and everything in between, Kia is steaming ahead at full speed and aims to take his brand across China and beyond.

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Shanghai Director

Erik is a long term resident of Shanghai, where he pursues his passion for the Industrial Internet (Internet 4.0, IIoT) as a Partner at IoT ONE. Erik helps companies develop and implement their Industrial Internet strategies by providing insight into markets, customer requirements, competitors, and vendors.
He works with Industrial Internet solution providers that plan to enter Asia's growing markets, as well as companies that want to identify the best solutions to address their needs. IoT ONE is also cataloguing the global Industrial Internet landscape to help leaders make confident strategic decisions, including use cases, case studies, and vendors.
If you want to track the risks and opportunities that the Industrial Internet poses to your company, or are just visiting Shanghai and want to meet the entrepreneur community, please reach out. I'll do my best to make your visit a success.

Shanghai Co-Director

Guang Qin Sun (Mia) graduated from University of Macau and Erasmus University Rotterdam with a Master degree in Finance. Mia used to work in a boutique corporate finance firm in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, serving Chinese overseas investments. Currently Mia is working in the investment banking industry in Shanghai, and is focusing on the Chinese outbound mergers & acquisitions for Chinese state-owned enterprises and private companies. In Mia's day to day work, she has been connected with various PEs, VCs, as well as successful Chinese entrepreneurs.

Shanghai Co-Director

Florian's personal brand is built around entrepreneurship, pluriculturalism & environmental protection. These keywords led him to China's startup ecosystem for the first time in 2010, and most recently to Mobike, where he oversees Global Partnerships and Government Affairs.
As the first foreigner in Mobike (employee #37), he internationalized the company by personally launching the service in Singapore, creating partnerships with international brands and opening up markets outside of China, recruiting brilliant talents to fuel Mobike's growth & laying out the entire foundation for international growth.
Florian strives in the international start-up ecosystem; In addition to Mobike, he is Co-Director of Shanghai's Startup Grind Chapter & Mentor at Asia's No1 accelerator program Chinaccelerator. Prior to Mobike, he founded and exited WeSmart, an energy management SaaS platform, servicing MNCs in greater China (Coca-Cola, BP Castrol, Michelin, Carrefour, Sephora, etc.), raising 7 million RMB in the company's first round of funding.
He graduated with a Post-Master in International Energy Management from Beijing's Tsinghua University & Ecole des Mines de Paris, as well as a Master of Thermodynamics, and a Master of Eco-design & Sustainable Transports from ESTACA. He is fluent in Chinese thanks to ANKI; he's also an INSEAD EMBA candidate.